"I said retreat to the north..." Zhu Jinzhang roared angrily, still riding his horse past his subordinates.
Although they still wanted to avenge their dead brothers, with Zhu Jinzhang's strict orders at this time, these soldiers could only carry out the orders honestly.
Turning around, they were driven along with Zhu Jinzhang. Zhao Yanxun was a few meters behind them, and a hundred meters in front of them were a large number of zombies.
This was really a blockade in front and a pursuit in the back. The situation was extremely unfavorable to Zhu Jinzhang.
"Your Majesty, there is danger ahead..." the officer reminded.
"Rush over..." Zhu Jinzhang ignored him.
At this moment, in his heart, Zhao Yanxun's butcher knife is more terrifying than the zombies, so he would rather break through the zombies, at least this has more hope than facing Zhao Yanxun.
In fact, although the zombies that were attracted were large in number, they were relatively loosely distributed, so it was not impossible to rush through them quickly.
The distance of a hundred meters was enough for them to increase their speed, and more than thirty people crashed directly into the group of corpses.
This movement caused the zombie group to quickly move towards the center, and the zombie density began to increase.
But Zhu Jinzhang gritted his teeth and continued to charge forward with his men. They would be out of trouble in thirty meters.
At this time, Zhao Yanxun also rushed to the edge of the corpse group and saw Zhu Jinzhang in the center of the corpse group.
He had two choices before him. One was to rush directly into the zombies, but it would be difficult to catch Zhu Jinzhang this way. After all, the density of zombies was getting bigger now.
The second option is to bypass the group of corpses and continue the pursuit, but this also has problems. The detour will take too long, and it is very likely that Zhu Jinzhang will be lost.
Before he could think about the outcome, the zombies rushing towards him had already forced Zhao Yanxun to make a choice.
As a result, he could only raise his sword and attack, trying to kill Zhu Jinzhang as soon as possible.
It is undoubtedly a very dangerous behavior for a person to rush into a group of zombies. This requires Zhao Yanxun to quickly clear away the zombies, otherwise everyone on the horse may be bitten to death.
Ahead, Zhu Jinzhang and his party originally numbered more than thirty people, but now there were only fifteen or sixteen left, and the rest were buried among the corpses.
But fortunately, the density of zombies in front of them was small, and the density behind them was just enough to help block Zhao Yanxun.
"Come on..." Zhu Jinzhang shouted.
Finally, a group of ten of them broke out of the group of corpses and fled directly north.
While escaping, Zhu Jinzhang did not forget to look back and saw zombie torsos flying all over the sky.
Zhao Yanxun was so powerful that Zhu Jinzhang, who had already escaped from danger, had no time to stay and watch the joke, but continued northward with his remaining troops to escape.
In his eyes, Zhao Yanxun was invincible, but at this moment, Zhao Yanxun was secretly complaining.
The density of the corpses was too high and it was difficult to break through in a short time. Zhao Yanxun even sensed the danger of being trapped.
At this moment, he is exerting all his strength, which consumes a lot of physical energy.
Zhu Jinzhang had already escaped, and the density of corpses in front was even greater, so continuing to pursue him had become a last resort.
So Zhao Yanxun retreated south. Even though it was easier this way, it was not easy to withdraw.
Five minutes later, Zhao Yanxun fought his way out of the group of corpses. His physical strength only lasted five minutes, and it was obvious that he could no longer pursue him.
The top priority is to quickly find a place to hide and recover your strength before making the next step.
At this moment, Zhao Yanxun's mount had been bitten to death. Fortunately, there were still horses around, which were the horses of the Ming army that were killed.
After changing horses, Zhao Yanxun first found a place to recover his strength, but in the end he was still unwilling to give in. After bypassing the corpses, he hit his horse and continued northward.
By this time, night had fallen.
This night was an extremely difficult one for both the Yong and Ming armies.
But no matter how difficult it is, the sun will always rise the next day, and the living will continue to suffer.
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The pass, fifteen miles north of Tianma Fort, has a relatively wider terrain than the side closer to Tianma Fort.
Above the official road, there were a dozen or so zombies wandering around, and everything seemed very peaceful.
But the sound of wheels in the distance dispersed the silence of the place, and the aimless zombies immediately had a unified goal.
The zombies ran south, and now on the hillside east of the pass, a scout came back quickly.
"Qianhu...there are people coming from the south!"
Hearing this, Zhu Xiaoan, who was resting on the tree, immediately opened his eyes and asked hurriedly: "It's only the second day, and someone is coming from the south to deliver something?"
"yes!"
"How many people did they come?"
"The younger one counted carefully, there are ninety-three people in total!"
"Are there any cavalry? How are the equipment?" Zhu Xiaoan asked immediately.
"Back to Qianhu, they are just ordinary infantrymen without spears or shields. They are driving five carts full of food!"
Hearing this, Zhu Xiaoan breathed a sigh of relief.
Generally speaking, the soldiers used to transport food and grass are the weakest in combat effectiveness. After all, those with strong combat effectiveness have to go to the front line.
His mission was to cut off the Yong Army's supply line, so could he eat this bandit army... Zhu Xiao'an came up with this idea.
But the next moment, he seemed a little hesitant. What if he couldn't do it?
Once bitten by a snake, he was afraid of well ropes for ten years...Zhu Xiaoan was already afraid of Yong's army.
"Three brothers, did you all hear what I just said?"
The three hundred households who were called by Zhu Xiaoan all came to Zhu Xiaoan at this moment. Naturally, they all heard what he just said.
Just listen to Zhu Xiaoan continue to say: "Your Majesty asked us to cut off the food road, this battle will definitely be fought... Do you think we can win these more than 90 Yong troops?"
In fact, after listening to the situation report just now, objectively speaking, this question is easy to answer.
Three times the force, cavalry versus light infantry, and in a surprise attack... No matter how you look at it, you can't lose this battle.
"Qianhu, they don't have spears, shields, or horses. We...should be able to win!"
Although the answer is obvious, no one dares to confirm it at this time, not even Zhu Xiaoan after all.
After looking around, another member of the household said, "Sir, we are cavalry, even if we can't win... we can still retreat!"
"Exactly...exactly!"
Seeing the cautious look of his men, Zhu Xiaoan felt a little upset. He actually knew that there was no suspense in this battle.
With three times the strength advantage, and using cavalry against light infantry, if they all lost, it would be unless they were all pig brains.
"Damn it, I hit a snag before, is it possible that I'm going to hit a snag again and again?"
Speaking of this, Zhu Xiaoan became more and more excited: "We can't defeat the Yong army's main army, but we can't defeat these miscellaneous soldiers... There are only a hundred people, so beat him the son of a bitch!"
The three hundred households nodded. As long as they were normal people, they would not think that this battle would be lost.
The next thing to do is to prepare carefully and end the battle as quickly as possible.
